Harsh Mander: How I (barely) survived Covid-19 in a general ward of a public hospital
‘Its troubling reminders continue to haunt my memory and my conscience,’ writes the social activist.
Where does all our hatred come from?
Harsh Mander writes: The violence in Assam, like that inflicted by lynch mobs, shows normalisation of hatred against communities. It cannot be ascribed to social anomalies.
Remember the horrors of Partition, but also draw the right lessons from them
We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people.
Modi government’s partisan misuse of institutions has pushed the Indian republic to the brink
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
Timely and Timeless, Indrajit Roy’s ‘Politics of the Poor’ Tackles a Complex Social Role
India is the world’s largest democracy, but it is also home to the largest numbers of poor people in the world. Roy examines the dichotomy of such an existence. Representative image. An elderly voter shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the third phase of Bihar assembly elections, at a polling station…
Harsh Mander: Will we learn anything from the mass pyres and floating bodies?
The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens.
The UAPA Is One Of Many Modern-Day Avatars Of The Draconian, Colonial Rowlatt Act
The Delhi police accused protesting students of terorrism but refused to treat violence-inciting hate speeches of ruling party leaders as even culpable criminal acts. More than a century after the Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed the British to indefinitely jail Indians it suspected of terrorism without trial, the UAPA & related laws allow free India’s government to do the same.
The ‘love jihad’ bogey in Kashmir is another attempt to deny women freedom of choice
This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men.
The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
After fire in Delhi camp, Rohingya refugees say all they want is a place of safety
The blaze on June 12 was the fifth fire in the settlement in nine years.